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  • Recommend me: Virus scanning software for my PC
  • brooess
    Free Member

    I have Norton at the moment, due to renew in the next few weeks. Are there any decent alternatives? Ideally looking to reduce the amount of memory it takes up. Currently it's taking up around 60MB

    Ta

    tragically1969
    Free Member

    Norton is the most horrific program available, its proper bloatware.

    Avast is good

    Ecky-Thump
    Free Member

    AVG free edition will probably do most people fine. Not sure what memory it takes up but never had a problem with it.

    I've got "AVG" for the anti-vrus; "zone alarm" for the firewall and run Firefox with the "no-script" extension.
    You might also like to supplement this with "Ad-aware" and "Spy-bot search and destroy". Google each for more info.

    Its all free stuff too 🙂

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    clubber
    Free Member

    AVG Free along with spybot S&D free.

    beej
    Full Member

    Similar to E-T, I use AVG free, adaware and spybot s&d (running them manually). Use standard windows firewall, plus firewall on my router.

    29erKeith
    Free Member

    Kaperski seems good to me, free if you bank with Barclays

    grumm
    Free Member

    Norton is appalling and rather like a virus itself – slows your computer to a grinding halt. I couldn't properly delete it off my old PC and it pretty much killed it.

    cranberry
    Free Member

    I have generally found Kaspersky to be good ( but then I don't tend to get viruses ).

    fozzybear
    Free Member

    Avast 14 months free, no popup reminders or BS al la AVG, just a 7 level AV protection system.

    Highly recommended (as is kaspersky)

    Drac
    Full Member

    Avast and it's free no matter who you bank with. 😯

    mavisto
    Free Member

    Been using Avast for about 5 years now.

    I use Opera as a browser and email client. When I started using Opera, Avast was the only free product that would fully integrate with the email client.

    Great product. Only downside is that you have to re-register every year but it's an easy process to get your new product code and you're off again!

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